Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] have only " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he left , Billy Ray , 31 , indicated to fans that he had only two finger-lickin' minutes to spare . |
| 2 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 3 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 4 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 5 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 6 | Many pilots plan on the basis that they have only to lose height from the final turn to the DH during the total inbound time . |
| 7 | There was a time , I think , in the late sixties , when erm the education service did itself very little good by going along with the general mythology that you had only to put more money into the schools to service , to solve all social problems . |
| 8 | Ten minutes later , he was standing as a customer in another shop , the kind of shop that he 'd only previously ever visited in a raid . |
| 9 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 11 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 12 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 13 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 14 | Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours . |
| 15 | Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London . |
| 16 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 17 | ‘ Low battery ’ , for instance , is a warning that you have only a minute or so of battery-time left before you will have to stop the shoot to allow the battery to be changed or recharged . |
| 18 | They , they know what they have to do to protect that stock , to protect their life 's interests and they , and they know they do n't need to be told really by any officer here who are not in that not , not in that game , what they have to do that 's what they 're asking us to do and they certainly asked us to do that on the erm , on the tour of county farms that we had only , only a few weeks ago . |
| 19 | I would n't single him out , I would just say he 's not a strong teacher for the reason that he 's only got part of it under his belt properly yet . |
| 20 | This is not proof , of course , that there was no reasonable expectation of trouble ; the late announcement of the ban , however , gave credence to the assumption that it had only been prompted by the Apprentice Boys march , and that the Government , as in Dungannon , was allowing a loyalist organisation to manipulate the situation so that an opposition demonstration would be banned . |
| 21 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 22 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 23 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 24 | The magic wears off , and Swift advises women that they have only themselves to blame for a husband 's loss of enthusiasm if they do not keep themselves clean : |
| 25 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
| 26 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 27 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 28 | On Jan. 3 the government claimed to have defeated the rebels and on Jan. 7 the French government started to pull out its reinforcements on the grounds that they had only been sent in to protect French expatriates and that this purpose had now been served . |
| 29 | Yeah I , I mean to be honest on that I was more conscious of the fact that we 'd only got fifteen |
| 30 | And certainly if you look at the case for very many women not in the job tops we 're talking about low paid work erm low rates of unionisation , very , very low rates of day care erm it 's those sorts of things that I 'm talking about , and for me those are very , very much more important than the fact that we 've only got one woman Chief Officer at the top in the County Council . |